Airport Security FAIL - Liquids in Manufacturer Bottles are Legit

In this edition of stupid laws you can't believe someone actually wrote, we investigate a new one. Apparently, there is a law about how liquids must be stored that goes down on the list as one any criminal without a front labotomy (or drug use with similar effects) could get around.

Coming through security at JFK today, I had my little clear plastic baggy with my clear plastic bottles I fill with shampoo, conditioning, body wash, and lotion. The TSA official pulled me aside and asked if she could search my bag. I don't know why they ask, since they're going to do it anyway and I'd be a fool to say anything other than "Yes, of course" unless I actually WANT to miss my flight. So she takes a look at these little bottles with their cute little "shampoo", "conditioner", etc. labels and askes me...

"Did anyone tell you, you have to have the manufacturer's label on the bottle - otherwise I won't know what's in them?"

WTF?!!

So you're telling me if I empty out a little pert plus bottle, and fill it up with something dangerous, you'll let it go. But if I travel with legitimate liquids in a clear container I am out of luck? Wow. That's some damn scientific protection our state in investing millions and millions of dollars in. Makes me kind of wonder why there haven't been more yucky chemical attacks on airplanes.

So I threw out the stuff, I mean it wasn't worth missing a flight over. She offered to have someone come over and talk to me, so that I might be able to take them through, and now I'm kind of wishing I had taken her up on it - just to see what on Earth they'd do. Would they somehow test the liquids to prove they're not harmful?

Airport security is one big act we all play along with, and this is just the latest.

UPDATE:

UPDATE #2 (and Scott Phelps you rock my friend!):